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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:44 pm

Heeeerrrrree's JACKY!

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Playing a waiting game. It is making me very irritated.So I still don't know what the landlords will do. Turns out they legally have to give 90 days written notice to raise the rent, but they can always so a 30 day no fault evicition. So in the mean time we are trying to determine if we can buy a house. I just don't have any real answers and can't move forward not knowing which way to go.

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:23 am

Should Write a Goddam Book Already

Joined: Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:25 amPosts: 1044

monkeytoes wrote:

DarthCupcake wrote:

Over the weekend, I met a dog called a CHIHUAWEENIE. It is a cross of a Chihuahua and a Dachshund. And basically it was so insanely adorable and I wanted to steal it, but I couldn't because that's not right, but YOU GUYS CHIHUAWEENIE.

I want one. I am thinking about puppies instead of grading. But puppies!

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:49 am

Invented Vegan Meringue

Joined: Sat Nov 06, 2010 3:25 pmPosts: 3734Location: Nashville, TN

Warning! More roommate complaints ahead.

I'm pretty sure this guy is stomping around upstairs in the morning trying to wake us up on purpose, because he's bitter that we get to sleep later than him. Or just bitter about his life, I don't know. I never hear my husband moving around when he's upstairs, or maybe a very occasional footstep, but roommate makes it sound like an elephant stampede every morning.

Also, dishes are piled up in the kitchen since I've started working part-time, because I'm the only person who does them, sometimes with a little help from my husband. How does roommate help with the mess? He takes leftovers from one container in the fridge, transfers them to a container that he likes better, and tosses the dirty one on the mountain of dishes in the sink. A+ decision-making.

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:52 am

Ninja Master

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:00 pmPosts: 5888Location: Surrey, UK

creep wrote:

Warning! More roommate complaints ahead.

I'm pretty sure this guy is stomping around upstairs in the morning trying to wake us up on purpose, because he's bitter that we get to sleep later than him. Or just bitter about his life, I don't know. I never hear my husband moving around when he's upstairs, or maybe a very occasional footstep, but roommate makes it sound like an elephant stampede every morning.

Also, dishes are piled up in the kitchen since I've started working part-time, because I'm the only person who does them, sometimes with a little help from my husband. How does roommate help with the mess? He takes leftovers from one container in the fridge, transfers them to a container that he likes better, and tosses the dirty one on the mountain of dishes in the sink. A+ decision-making.

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:53 am

Asked Santa for a Hoveringdog

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creep wrote:

Warning! More roommate complaints ahead.

I'm pretty sure this guy is stomping around upstairs in the morning trying to wake us up on purpose, because he's bitter that we get to sleep later than him. Or just bitter about his life, I don't know. I never hear my husband moving around when he's upstairs, or maybe a very occasional footstep, but roommate makes it sound like an elephant stampede every morning.

Also, dishes are piled up in the kitchen since I've started working part-time, because I'm the only person who does them, sometimes with a little help from my husband. How does roommate help with the mess? He takes leftovers from one container in the fridge, transfers them to a container that he likes better, and tosses the dirty one on the mountain of dishes in the sink. A+ decision-making.

He sounds like an asparagus, and not just based on this post but other things you've said as well. Would having your husband talk to him help since it'd be guy to guy? I hope for your sanity he either changes his attitude and/or moves out soon.

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:02 am

Emotionally Allergic to Dairy

Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2010 11:28 pmPosts: 3354Location: San Francisco

I think my cat is broken. I hear that most people's cats wake them up in the morning, demanding food, and Zuzu did that for the first month or so that I had her, but now when my alarm goes off, she actually smacks at my iPhone, trying to turn it off, and then cuddles closer to me and goes back to sleep.

What the hell. Do cats have a reset button or something? She's clearly malfunctioning.

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:07 am

No-pants hermit 4 lyfe

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DarthCupcake wrote:

I think my cat is broken. I hear that most people's cats wake them up in the morning, demanding food, and Zuzu did that for the first month or so that I had her, but now when my alarm goes off, she actually smacks at my iPhone, trying to turn it off, and then cuddles closer to me and goes back to sleep.

What the hell. Do cats have a reset button or something? She's clearly malfunctioning.

in my experience, cats wake you up and make demands when you would like to continue sleeping, and they snuggle with you and act adorable and squishy and make you want to stay in bed with them forever when you have to get up and do something.

_________________"rise from the ashes of douchebaggery like a fancy vegan phoenix" - amandabear"I'm pretty sure the moral of this story is: fork pants." - cq

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:44 am

Vegan Since Before There Were Vegetables

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 3:30 pmPosts: 11607

DarthCupcake wrote:

I think my cat is broken. I hear that most people's cats wake them up in the morning, demanding food, and Zuzu did that for the first month or so that I had her, but now when my alarm goes off, she actually smacks at my iPhone, trying to turn it off, and then cuddles closer to me and goes back to sleep.

What the hell. Do cats have a reset button or something? She's clearly malfunctioning.

Ha. My cat wakes me up anywhere between 3:45 and 4:25, when I feed her and reluctantly find myself too awake to drift off again. Eventually I manage it around 6, but I almost always wake up too late to properly get ready for work because she is so tired and cuddly.

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:43 pm

Invented Vegan Meringue

Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:30 pmPosts: 3584Location: Almost Boston

My mom just decided to dress up and go out shopping "just because". She ventured into the scary closet-where-everything-is-at-least-two-decades-old and emerged wearing a 30 year old tweed jacket with about 2 inches of dust on it, some kind of weird scarf, and 90s heeled boots. At first I thought she was being all mom-dorky, but now I'm thinking maybe she's just ahead of the curve and is a trendsetter.

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:44 pm

Kitchens Planning Manchester

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raspberrycomplaint wrote:

My mom just decided to dress up and go out shopping "just because". She ventured into the scary closet-where-everything-is-at-least-two-decades-old and emerged wearing a 30 year old tweed jacket with about 2 inches of dust on it, some kind of weird scarf, and 90s heeled boots. At first I thought she was being all mom-dorky, but now I'm thinking maybe she's just ahead of the curve and is a trendsetter.

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:55 pm

No-pants hermit 4 lyfe

Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:22 amPosts: 3189Location: BKLN

why did i agree to edit two thousand-page books about the biology of ticks? i'm eight pages into the first chapter of the first volume, and i'm already cringing and scrinching up my nose at the ickiness. i'm really looking forward to the chapter on mouthparts OH WAIT NO I AM NOT.

_________________"rise from the ashes of douchebaggery like a fancy vegan phoenix" - amandabear"I'm pretty sure the moral of this story is: fork pants." - cq

I'd need at least $80 for a new bottle of that. Not in the budget right now. I'm rationing my sample vials in the meantime. My aunt said she is sending me some a few months ago, but she hasn't mailed it yet. With the death in the family, and family drama, I'm not about to ask about the package. But, if I use creative accounting and buy a bottle, I bet hers will arrive.

Such awful problems, huh?

Maybe I need to bump up my Lexapro dose; I've been increasingly depressed lately, and it's starting to get into "weepy for no reason" territory. I had to cancel my dr appointment to work the extra days though. I want to be the go to sub around the building, so for now I'm trying to take anything offered, even if inconvenient.

I should go out. Maybe just for a latte before GED. I love my GED students; they always make me laugh.

We have a 60yr old African American man who is a laborer who does everything. Brilliant guy, just no formal education. He reminds me of my dad in a lot of ways, including how he never lets me drive out of the parking lot last at night. He also yelled at me for not parking under one of the street lights. A 30 your old nurses aid, a teen mother who was orignally from Guatemala, and a 19 year old fundie Christian home schooler. Nobody has much of anything in common, but they are all great, hard working, amazing people who get along so well together and help ech other learn. I am constantly amazed at how cohesive this group is. Maybe it's shared hatred of fractions.

_________________"This is the creepiest post ever if you don't know who Molly is." -Fee"a vegan death match sounds like something where we all end up hugging." -LisaPunk

why did i agree to edit two thousand-page books about the biology of ticks? i'm eight pages into the first chapter of the first volume, and i'm already cringing and scrinching up my nose at the ickiness. i'm really looking forward to the chapter on mouthparts OH WAIT NO I AM NOT.

Think of all the scintillating cocktail party discussion topics you'll end up with!

_________________"This is the creepiest post ever if you don't know who Molly is." -Fee"a vegan death match sounds like something where we all end up hugging." -LisaPunk

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:48 pm

Emotionally Allergic to Dairy

Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2010 11:28 pmPosts: 3354Location: San Francisco

Anek wrote:

I am more and more in l*** every day. The L-word is dangerous and frightening but we are going there like a train with no brakes.

Aw yay! I totally feel you on both counts. It's so scary, but exciting, but scary!

lavawitch wrote:

We have a 60yr old African American man who is a laborer who does everything. Brilliant guy, just no formal education. He reminds me of my dad in a lot of ways, including how he never lets me drive out of the parking lot last at night. He also yelled at me for not parking under one of the street lights. A 30 your old nurses aid, a teen mother who was orignally from Guatemala, and a 19 year old fundie Christian home schooler. Nobody has much of anything in common, but they are all great, hard working, amazing people who get along so well together and help ech other learn. I am constantly amazed at how cohesive this group is. Maybe it's shared hatred of fractions.

That sounds like such fun! I love when you get classes like that. It's that kind of thing that keeps a person going!

I'm really proud of my students. We've been doing some REALLY HARD reading (Kant and Bentham) and I gave them a rather difficult essay topic on it to boot, and the essay was due today. Essays were turned in, no complaining, no wheedling for extensions... They worked so hard. I'm so proud of them!

At the beginning of fifth period, a box containing a file cabinet drawer fell on my head. I've been bleeding a little bit from my scalp under my hair ever since and my head huuuurrrrrttttssss. But I only had to teach two classes, and now everyone has gone because it's a half day and I have meetings for the afternoon, so I can't justify going home. Besides, there's a rally/action to support finally giving the union a contract this afternoon, and I want to be there for that so I don't want to leave.

But I also have students in my classroom right now doing work, so I can't go to the bathroom to wash the blood crusties out of my hair, which is grossing me out and making me sad.

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 5:28 pm

No-pants hermit 4 lyfe

Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:22 amPosts: 3189Location: BKLN

lavawitch wrote:

acr wrote:

why did i agree to edit two thousand-page books about the biology of ticks? i'm eight pages into the first chapter of the first volume, and i'm already cringing and scrinching up my nose at the ickiness. i'm really looking forward to the chapter on mouthparts OH WAIT NO I AM NOT.

Think of all the scintillating cocktail party discussion topics you'll end up with!

between this and my in-depth knowledge of the mating ritual of the african fig wasp, i'm sure to be the highlight of the evening. chat me up, fellas. lean in close so i can tell you everything i know about telescopic genitalia and barbed hypostomes. what do you mean it's getting late? you have to stay long enough for me to tell you how scabies construct molting pouches.

_________________"rise from the ashes of douchebaggery like a fancy vegan phoenix" - amandabear"I'm pretty sure the moral of this story is: fork pants." - cq

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 5:47 pm

Dead by dawn

Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:54 pmPosts: 8748Location: Seattle

acr wrote:

lavawitch wrote:

acr wrote:

why did i agree to edit two thousand-page books about the biology of ticks? i'm eight pages into the first chapter of the first volume, and i'm already cringing and scrinching up my nose at the ickiness. i'm really looking forward to the chapter on mouthparts OH WAIT NO I AM NOT.

Think of all the scintillating cocktail party discussion topics you'll end up with!

between this and my in-depth knowledge of the mating ritual of the african fig wasp, i'm sure to be the highlight of the evening. chat me up, fellas. lean in close so i can tell you everything i know about telescopic genitalia and barbed hypostomes. what do you mean it's getting late? you have to stay long enough for me to tell you how scabies construct molting pouches.

That kind of made me want to cry. I don't want to hear anything about molting pouches ever again.

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:03 pm

Invented Vegan Meringue

Joined: Sat Nov 06, 2010 3:25 pmPosts: 3734Location: Nashville, TN

gaia13 wrote:

creep wrote:

Warning! More roommate complaints ahead.

I'm pretty sure this guy is stomping around upstairs in the morning trying to wake us up on purpose, because he's bitter that we get to sleep later than him. Or just bitter about his life, I don't know. I never hear my husband moving around when he's upstairs, or maybe a very occasional footstep, but roommate makes it sound like an elephant stampede every morning.

Also, dishes are piled up in the kitchen since I've started working part-time, because I'm the only person who does them, sometimes with a little help from my husband. How does roommate help with the mess? He takes leftovers from one container in the fridge, transfers them to a container that he likes better, and tosses the dirty one on the mountain of dishes in the sink. A+ decision-making.

He sounds like an asparagus, and not just based on this post but other things you've said as well. Would having your husband talk to him help since it'd be guy to guy? I hope for your sanity he either changes his attitude and/or moves out soon.

He doesn't seem very receptive to anything either of us ask of him. Like, a lot of people would argue, but he just kind of acknowledges what we're saying but never changes his behavior. Anyway, we can't afford this place without him, so we'll be leaving when the lease is up. Complaining here and having people tell me I'm not insane keeps the crazies away, for now. THX GUYZ